Instructor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University

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Welcome to my research website. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher/instructor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University where I teach cadaver-based human anatomy to first year medical students. I am researching the evolution of flight in theropods via neuroscience. To do this, I analyze the changes in shape of the brain using geometric morphometrics and assess how the brain is used during different behaviors in living birds via positron emission tomography. I have also been known to dabble in Crocodylian morphometrics and phylogenetics, which was the topic of my masters thesis.